Agriculture: AGRICULTURE Buttering the Bread Tax

From his solemn mien and the badge pinned defiantly on his lapel,
anyone who spotted Orville Freeman on the street in recent weeks
might have concluded that he was rehearsing for a cigarette
commercial. And in fact, though his badge, I WILL NOT BOW DOWN
TO THE BREAD TRUST, was hardly aimed at the consumer, the
Secretary of Agriculture proved as unswitchable as they come.

As Freeman explained it, he was merely defending the Great Society
against "aggressive, go-for-broke special interests." Specifically, he
was battling for a new, cash-enriched farm bill whose most controversial
provision...